Election 2024: How Will Each Party Sort You A Gaff?
Words: Dray Morgan
Sinn Féin
300,000 new homes built, both private and public by the end of the next government.
Develop a pilot programme to create social housing with studio space for artists.
Create a single public housing fund.
Double the budget to regenerate inner city flats to €100 million.
Three-year ban on rent increases for all new and existing tenancies.
Give redress to those who bought houses with Celtic Tiger-era building defects.
Sell homes to eligible purchasers at prices between €250,000 and €300,000 depending on size and location.
Fine Gael
303,000 new homes by 2030
60,000 new homes per year by 2030
Increase the Help To Buy Scheme by 33%
50% of new homes in cities, 50% in rural areas
12,000 affordable homes for purchase annually by 2030
Continuing the Landlord Tax Credit until 2030
Raising the Rent Tax Credit to €1,500 per renter
Committing more efficient delivery of essential projects on time and on budget with outside engineering and project management experts brought in to deliver public projects.
Fianna Fáil
Reach 60,000 homes built per year by 2030
Average of 10,000 affordable units per year
Establish a central construction supply unit to track cost and efficiency major public construction projects
Create a land price register to penalise “land hoarding”
Fund €2bn for servicing sites for more house building sites
Extend help to buy scheme to 2030
Create an “Above the Shop” grant to make spaces above retail spaces liveable
Establish a deposit protection scheme, rent price register and enhance powers of RTB.
Labour Party
50,000 new homes per year.
Increase social housing building by 50% to 15,000 per year by 2028.
Establish a state construction company.
Increase stamp duty on bulk purchasing of homes.
Develop initiatives to encourage women in construction and mitigate dropout rates through “improving pay and conditions”.
Phase out the First Home Scheme in favour of affordable housing.
Raise the vacant property tax to €3,000, ten times the Local Property Tax.
“Above the shop” scheme to convert vacant spaces above retail buildings.
Green Party
Minimum renovations to 4,000 derelict homes.
Compartmentalise city investment through a “Minister of State for Regional Cities”.
Introduce the Help To Buy scheme available to renters who want to buy their home from their landlords.
50,000 new homes per year.
Social Democrats
70,000 social homes and 75000 affordable homes over 5 years.
End no fault evictions.
End the privatisation of homeless hostels.
Create a fund to purchase and renovate derelict properties.
Increase vacant home tax by 14x.
Implement a “National Housing Strategy For Disabled People”.
Create a national policy for the planning of housing and development in Gaeltacht areas,
Invest directly in publicly owned affordable student accommodation.
People Before Profit
Establish a state construction company.
30,000 social and 5,000 affordable homes per year.
Ban vulture funds.
Hold a referendum on the right to housing.
Declare a housing emergency.
Punitive “use it or lose it” tax on vacant property.
Introduce a rent freeze, real rent controls and reinstate the eviction ban;
Triple Renters Tax Credit to €3000.
Aontú
3500 social homes per year.
Demand state land to be made available for housing.
An increased tax on homes that are empty for over 2 years without good reason.
A facility to allow Credit Unions funds to be channelled into the building of Social Homes.
increased social housing responsibility for private developers.
